Endangered
King colobus
Colobus polykomos
King colobus is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae (order Primates) — Colobus polykomos, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The body is black, the limbs and fingers are long and the tail is white. There is a fringe of silvery hair around the face as well as long white "epaulettes" on its shoulders. The king colobus can be distinguished from other members of the Colobus genus by the placement of its white markings.
The male king colobus grows to a head-and-body length of 67 cm (26 in), with a tail of between 63 and 90 cm (25 and 35 in). Males weigh an average of 9.9 kg (22 lb) and females weigh an average of 8.3 kg (18 lb).
Range and habitat
The king colobus monkey is found in lowland and montane tropical rainforests. The region in that they inhabit is limited to a small range on the Ivory Coast up to Gambia. Much of the habitat of the king colobus has been destroyed by humans for farming and secondary forests have begun to fill in this area.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Diet consists mainly of arboreal leaves, but includes fruit and flowers depending on the season. It can be found foraging on the ground and typically stays within a foraging path of approximately 500 m (1,600 ft).
In crisis
The main cause for the decline is hunting that is threatening and fragmenting populations. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being endangered.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
King colobus is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on King colobus, Wikidata item Q949200. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
